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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it. ↗

— Judd Hirsch

#case #completely #end #failed #happens

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#force #most #most powerful #powerful #world

A physician should never sit like a judge over a desperate patient and hand down a fixed sentence of days or weeks or months of remaining life, even when the patient expect it. ↗

— Jerome Groopman

#life

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ↗

— Al Hirschfeld

#children #crayons #down #just #put

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#actually #fluid #goal #life #never

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #enviable #enviable position #every #feel

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bacon #because #being #best #francis

I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what he called Snake's Navel, Arkansas. He said in Snake's Navel, the biggest thing going on Saturday night was the Dairy Queen. He said you could get the people there to do damn near anything --pollute their own water, work at five-dollar-an-hour jobs, drive fifty miles to a health clinic-- as long as you packaged it right. That meant you gave them a light show and faith healings and blow-down-the-walls gospel music with a whole row of American flags across the stage. He said what they liked best, though --what really got them to pissing all over themselves-- was to be told it was other people going to hell and not them. He said people in Snake's Navel wasn't real fond of homosexuals and Arabs and Hollywood Jews, although he didn't use them kinds of terms in his sermons. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#faith